spooks Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 If anyone is rushing to finish to fly in or out of the UK today (15/04), don't bother, all flights are cancelled A volcanic eruption in iceland has created a ash cload over the UK & northern europe, flights are banned till the cload has moved away. Sam Remember, What you think I ment may not be what I thought I ment when I said it. Contributions: Auto Backup your Database, Easy way Multi Images with Fancy Pop-ups, Easy way Products in columns with multi buy etc etc Disable any Category or Product, Easy way Secure & Improve your account pages et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Yes, my flight to Munich has been cancelled :-\ Not good, as this is the end of a rather large project that needs me there in order to do some training and set the site live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥mdtaylorlrim Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Yes, my flight to Munich has been cancelled :-\ Not good, as this is the end of a rather large project that needs me there in order to do some training and set the site live. Road trip. Great way to see the countryside. Community Bootstrap Edition, Edge Avoid the most asked question. See How to Secure My Site and How do I...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I don't understand why Europeans whine so much about canceled intra-Europe flights. Unlike the US, you have excellent high speed train service all over the continent, and good highways too. With the exception of a few places (Ireland, Malta, Crete, Cyprus, various smaller offshore islands) you can reach them without flying or a boat trip. People have just gotten spoiled by the ability to fly anywhere at short notice. Granted, the trains/boats/highways will have more people on them, while air travel is/was shut down, and for intercontinental travel you really don't have a choice. Contrast this with the US (a much bigger place), where train service is a joke and flying is the only choice for distances over 500km or so. To go from New York to Los Angeles by train is at least three days of travel! Just wait until the Yellowstone supervolcano blows up and smothers most of the US under a metre of ash! And if not that one, the Long Valley caldera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 LOL :D Ever been to Europe? If you have, have you ever been on a typical European train? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Zonjee Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I don't understand why Europeans whine so much about canceled intra-Europe flights. Unlike the US, you have excellent high speed train service all over the continent, and good highways too. Yes, but for international train trips you have to make a reservation and the capacity of the trains was very quickly exhausted when all these people wanted to get on. And if you wanted to hire a car to travel to your destination you were charged a fortune because the rental company has to arrange for the car to come back which cross-border in Europe is not too common. When I took the ferry from Calais to Dover for the last osC meeting in London we were with 4 people by foot. The rest was using a car or came with a bus (there were more UK customs and border people than passengers to check). The French company that sails from Dover didn't even take foot passengers any more.... With the airspace closed the ferries didn't have enough capacity for all the foot passengers wanting to cross... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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